Ancient Slavery and Abolition: From Hobbes to Hollywood

A pathbreaking study of the role played by ancient Greek and Roman sources and voices in the struggle to abolish transatlantic slavery and in representations of that struggle in the twentieth century. Thirteen essays by an interdisciplinary team of specialists from three continents, led by the Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome at Royal Holloway University of London, ask how both critics and defenders of slavery in media ranging from parliamentary speeches to poetry, fiction, drama, and cinema have summoned the ghosts of the ancient Spartans, Homer, Aristotle, Aeschylus, Pliny, Spartacus, and Prometheus to support their arguments.


Author: Edith Hall
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 09/05/2011
Pages: 528
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780199574674

About the Author

Edith Hall is Research Professor, Royal Holloway University of London.

Richard Alston is Professor of Roman History, Royal Holloway University of London.

Edith Hall is Research Professor, Royal Holloway University of London

Justine McConnell is Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Northwestern University.

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